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Close-up view of Peacock King (Kongque mingwang 孔雀明王), Kongque dong 孔雀洞 Anderl, Christoph

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These photographs show details of the statue of the Peacock King (Ch. Kongque mingwang 孔雀明王) in Kongque dong 孔雀洞, Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. The peacock king is a female bodhisattva featured in the Peacock King Sutra (Ch. Kongquewang zhou jing 孔雀王咒經, Skt. Mahāmayūrī-vidyarājñī-sūtra) and the Book of the Peacock Spell (Ch. Fomu dakongque mingwang jing 佛母大孔雀明王經, Skt. Āryam-aha-vidyarājñī-sūtra). She wears a ""Buddha Transfiguration Crown"" (Ch. Huafo baoguan 化佛寶冠) on her head and a keyūra necklace (Ch. yingluo 瓔珞) on her neck. Metadata created by: Veerle Vantomme, Violetta Maes, Junxi Sun, Changmeng Wan, Chiung-Ju Huang, and Sinae Kim.

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Title
Close-up view of Peacock King (Kongque mingwang 孔雀明王), Kongque dong 孔雀洞
Creator
Anderl, Christoph
Contributor
From the Ground Up: Buddhism & East Asian Religions (FROGBEAR Project)
Date Issued
2019-05-23
Description
These photographs show details of the statue of the Peacock King (Ch. Kongque mingwang 孔雀明王) in Kongque dong 孔雀洞, Anyue xian 安岳縣, Sichuan sheng 四川省. The peacock king is a female bodhisattva featured in the Peacock King Sutra (Ch. Kongquewang zhou jing 孔雀王咒經, Skt. Mahāmayūrī-vidyarājñī-sūtra) and the Book of the Peacock Spell (Ch. Fomu dakongque mingwang jing 佛母大孔雀明王經, Skt. Āryam-aha-vidyarājñī-sūtra). She wears a ""Buddha Transfiguration Crown"" (Ch. Huafo baoguan 化佛寶冠) on her head and a keyūra necklace (Ch. yingluo 瓔珞) on her neck. Metadata created by: Veerle Vantomme, Violetta Maes, Junxi Sun, Changmeng Wan, Chiung-Ju Huang, and Sinae Kim.
Subject
Anyue Buddhist Site; Sichuan Buddhist Art; Kongque dong; Peacock King; Buddhism; Stone Inscriptions
Geographic Location
Sichuan Sheng (China); Anyue Xian (China); Yuanjue dong (China); 29.8635436; 105.6553262
Type
Still Image
Language
zxx
Notes
Author Affiliation: Ghent University
Series
Cluster 3.4: Typologies of Text-Image Relations
Date Available
2023-03-21
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0428056
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/83940
Affiliation
Non UBC
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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